The Diabolical Masterminds of Series 6 (1968-9)

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Russian assassins led by Ezdorf, captured years earlier when it was discovered
they intended to kill secret service agents, all mysteriously vanish from
their prison cells, as Russian scientist shave devised a chameleon liquid
which lets the users blend into the background. Daft, isn't it?

Speaking of daft! An inventor creates a self-propelled electricty-consuming
box that kills by electric discharge. God knows why, as they seem hideously
suceptible to being shorted out by water, or overloading by high voltages.
His invention is stolen by Kruger, who plans to decimate Britain by letting
thousands of the boxes loose on the country.

The unhinged and greedy Lasindall brothers, desperate for their father's
hidden riches conspire with their housekeeper to kidnap Tara when they
discover she is the spitting image of their father's lost love, Pandora.
They drug Tara and try to condition her to think she is Pandora, and living
in London in 1915 but their eagerness gets the best of them and the riches
- a Rembrandt hidden under another painting - is destroyed.

Tara apparently witnesses Mother's murder from a terrorist bomb
in Steed's flat, and her 'rescuers' want her to identify Steed's
hideout as he's next in line for assassination. She believes the
crowd of military and medical personnel around her until her cast
accidentally cracks open, and the race is on to reach Steed before
the villains can find him from her confused description.

Grenville plans to (can you guess?) prevent world peace by disrupting
a major peace conference - this time with a missile fired from a nearby
country house.
He gets his decidedly strange medical expert, Circe, to implant phosphor
bombs in the occupants' necks, after testing this horrible device on an
innocent man. However, he didn't realise the occupants were personal
friends of Steed and Steed's resolve and Tara's timely arrival sees the
end of their plans.

Jay Fairfax plans to destroy confidence in British Security by...
(no! no! not doubles, or Steed being suspect this time!) ... by making
Tara appear to be a traitor trying to destroy the War Room computer
system. She's sent presents by the other side's Colonel Zaroff, is caught
smuggling film out of the War Room and framed for a murder, leading to her
security rating being stripped and orders given for her immediate
arrest, but she convinces Steed of her innocence, and he convinces Mother,
and they converge of Fairfax's gymnasium to stop the villains escape.

The 'Master' devises an escape route for embezzlers and other white
collar criminals by faking their deaths (using a serum that
temporarily arrests all body functions) and having them buried in a
graveyard which is in fact a huge underground resort where the
absconding fat cats indulge in an orgiastic life of food, wine and
girls before Steed and Tara dig out the truth and lead them all back
to the land of the living.